The American Dream?
The American Dream is defined as the ideals of freedom, equality, and opportunity traditionally held to be available to every American.
However everyone has their own different perspective of what it truly means to them.
To Troy his American Dream revolved around the life of baseball, and being successful at it but because of racial barriers he never achieved that dream.
However everyone has their own different perspective of what it truly means to them.
To Troy his American Dream revolved around the life of baseball, and being successful at it but because of racial barriers he never achieved that dream.
American Dream© Ophelia Flowers
Living the American dream isn't always as it seems.
Fancy cars, movie stars. Pain filled lives, filled with srs.
"I've got it all. My life is good. Everything seems as it ould."
I can do it myself. Life is all about me."
That's what they say 'cause they can't see.
Pain filled lives with no hope to find, for to true happiness they are blind.
"Do what you want for tomorrow we die." It's the way many live, but inside they cry.
They can't see why their world is a mess. They've lost their way but won't confess.
To surrender is the only way to be free. But if they won't hear it, they'll never see.
We must show the world how to lose their chains. They need to l G-d care for their pains.
The American dream shouldn't be about me. To so many it is, and they simply won't see.
Living the American dream isn't always as it seems.
Fancy cars, movie stars. Pain filled lives, filled with srs.
"I've got it all. My life is good. Everything seems as it ould."
I can do it myself. Life is all about me."
That's what they say 'cause they can't see.
Pain filled lives with no hope to find, for to true happiness they are blind.
"Do what you want for tomorrow we die." It's the way many live, but inside they cry.
They can't see why their world is a mess. They've lost their way but won't confess.
To surrender is the only way to be free. But if they won't hear it, they'll never see.
We must show the world how to lose their chains. They need to l G-d care for their pains.
The American dream shouldn't be about me. To so many it is, and they simply won't see.
I chose this poem because it relates to Troy Maxson and how he never values what he already has. Causing him to never be satisfied therefore leading him to make bad choices. "Do what you want for tomorrow we die" i found that part in the poem ironic because Troy always mentions how death is nothing to him. Lastly" The American dream shouldn't be about me" because that's what blinds him to see those who loves him(i,e his family,friend) the most that he's hurting.